The Séance

The word “séance” has come to be most associated with a group of people gathering and sitting to attempt to contact spirits, either loved ones who have passed away, or other entities who roam the alternative planes of reality.

These entities are generally held to comprise of remnants of the ancient gods and pagan spirits.

Mediumship involves an act where the practitioner attempts to receive messages from spirits of the dead and from other spirits beyond The Veil.

Some mediums are fully conscious and awake while functioning as contacts; others may slip into a partial or full trance or into an altered state of consciousness.

I prefer myself, to live my entire life in a partial trance, which I achieve by way of always being slightly tired, buzzed on coffee and hung over. This way, it is very easy for me to slip into a hypnagogic state.

Sadly however, I have no mediumistic ability, so we instead planned a Halloween entertainment in the classic style of the Victorian parlour séances.

Read on for thrilling real-life footage!

On Halloween night we gathered together to attempt to Pierce the Veil and contact Those On The Other Side. Halloween is the perfect night for this, as Samhain is a liminal time, when the boundary between this world and the next can be most easily crossed.

My co-blogger The Magic Mixolotrix is in London with me, so we were together to create the traditional Samhain feast, where a place is left at the table for the souls of dead kin.

We all joined hands around the table, and my calls to those Beyond the Veil were finally answered with a variety of raps, rustlings, footfalls and the sound of a cat mewing where no cat could be hiding.

A mechanical toy on a shelf broke into spontaneous movement, and shadowy figures moved around the room.

Each present asked a question of the Other Side, and each was answered in turn.

A climax was reached when I sensed a Presence in the room which was so huge and overwhelming that I eventually lost consciousness for a few moments, just as a spirit abruptly materialized in the form of a huge, glowing man plunging through the ceiling.

Although I did not see the materialization myself, I felt a cold horror rushing through me, which grew to unbearable levels as a dark, faceless figure emerged from the shadows.

This horror eventually emerged in the form of a scream! I think we all screamed for a moment, and this release of group energies was enough to dispel any further supernatural visitors for the night.

We were careful to keep the circle unbroken at all times, and to bid formal farewell to the entities and oddities who had joined us for the evening.

These meetings are not a method of the devil, but instead a communication device that has its roots in the most ancient methods of energy manipulation, giving us a better understanding of the “other side”.